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It's not that children are career killers, but rather taking significant amounts of time off is. It's also unclear if harming your career is even a bad thing t
by tabeth 9y ago
It's not that children are career killers, but rather taking significant amounts of time off is.
It's also unclear if harming your career is even a bad thing to begin, considering the options given (e.g. Don't have children, have children but neglect them, have children and take care of them, but have lower income when the caregiver returns to the work force). Perhaps spending proper time with children, even if it is at the cost of potential income, is worth it.
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I wonder if mandating that caregivers be able to work while raising their child somehow (perhaps a combination of remote work, daycare and in laws) would be enough to negate the negative effect while preserving the benefits.
- hvidgaard 9y agoIn my experience, it's not the time away from work that is the issue. It's that they ask for less and more flexible hours. They simply put their career on hold until the child becomes a teenager.
- saas_co_de 9y agoThere does seem to be a element of: "people who value their careers more than children end up making more money" here, which seems pretty obvious when you think about it. From a social and corporate perspective we have a choice though: should be allow incentive systems that reward people who value their careers over their children to continue? Or should we change our incentive systems so that people who value children over career earn equal wages or even more? Which group of people is actually more valuable to society?
- 09bjb 9y agoTeachers, full-time mothers and fathers, and generally anyone who's in charge of raising the next generation properly, are all underpaid and arguably undervalued. However, when you legislate away any reward for risk-takers, innovators, and all those folks you mentioned who simply work harder at the expense of something else in their lives...then you end up in a society where nobody tries, nothing happens, and everyone's pretty well subsumed into an existential crisis -like existence. What's the point of trying if it's guaranteed not to make a difference? "They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work." - Soviet-era saying
- indrax 9y ago> risk-takers, innovators, and all those folks you mentioned who simply work harder at the expense of something else in their lives. Given just that description, you could be talking about parents. The consequences you list for not rewarding them aren't off the mark either.
- eecc 9y agoFathers can take - plenty do here in NL - take a day off to mess around with junior...